skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has always been my pet peeve with jobs that won't hire people without '5-7 years experience with X' - the vast majority of these jobs do not need an EXPERT on language x, or framework y. If they do, the rest of this post does not apply.

You can learn enough of a language to be dangerous in just a couple weeks. Enough to be productive in 2-3 months. However, there are 3 other things you have to learn:

1. How the code for the project you are hired for works. How it's laid out. All the weird shit about it.

2. How the framework/libraries used by the project works. Nothing to do with the project, but maybe you haven't used Angular, Swing, or Boost before.

3. How the data is laid out, and how it gets in/out of your system. What database tables are there, what's the workflow.

Those 3 things are the hard part and what take 6-12 months. Learning Javascript, Ruby, or whatever language is the least of your worries.
UX designer here. See what kind of work and industry interests you - in-house product, agency, enterprise... then apply to all entry level positions that look interesting. Internships can be a good way to get a taste of position before fully committing, but their availability and quality really depend on location.

As both options are entry level, recruiters expect little concrete projects in portfolio (few personal projects should be ok), they will look for potential to learn how to do the work, so I suggest highlighting your ability to learn, think in a structured way, challenge your own assumptions, work with other people and grow.

Good luck and welcome to the world of UX design!
They are artificially reducing the buying volume. Anyone that bought GameStop recently on their platform is now stuck holding the bag or selling for less than it currently would be worth if they were not artificially reducing the buying demand. How do you think people that bought in over $300 feel now that Robinhood has done this? They made a decision knowing about the volatility and that it is likely to go up further due to short squeeze. Now RobinHood has changed the game in after-hours with no warning.
Facebook's Oversight Board’s first case decisions
Gotcha. I sure hope that NDA'd response is "we're about to unleash 'Cognito2' that rights all the wrongs of the current Cognito."
It was concerning because it was a demonstration of significant soft-power, and I think many people are surprised or hadn't yet considered the implications of that kind of power.
You had me, up until "legislature". Recent events seem to indicate the people know precisely where the legislature meets.
> If you own infrastructure you have some responsibility to share it.

Inasmuch as GM had responsibility to help build Tesla’s supercharger network, I agree.
> Find that hard to believe. Thoughts?

It's not a controversial point. We know that people with schizophrenia smoke; they smoke more cigarettes than other smokers; they smoke more of each cigarette than other smokers; they inhale deeper than other smokers; they start smoking at a younger age.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK179276/pdf/Bookshelf_N...

P123:

> Other disorders associated with cognitive and attentional impairment, such as schizophrenia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), are characterized by a very high prevalence of smoking among those affected. It has been proposed that individuals with these disorders smoke in order to alleviate the symptoms of their disease, and a number of clinical trials using nicotine as a therapeutic agent have been conducted.

(I'm not cutting and pasting because PDF fucking sucks).
I don't even know what Telegram does, but if I have Signal and iMessage I'm not sure what anything can offer me that I'm missing...
An Elegant Revolution Followed by Slaughter
> It seems obvious there would be plenty of "legitimate" dislikes coming, as probably a lot of people who followed this YouTube channel in the past 4 years were Trump supporters, and now the channel features Biden. Trump supporters still subscribed would dislike this content. I wonder if the same happened at the last transition.

I don't know about YouTube, but I've read that the 2017 transition and the 2021 transitions were different on Twitter:

2017: Obama's institutional twitter accounts (e.g. @POTUS) were archived, but Trump inherited the followers in his new @POTUS account.

2021: Trump's @POTUS was archived, but Biden's new @POTUS didn't inherit Trump's (and Obama's) followers. He had to start from scratch.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/technology/biden-white-ho...
This populist narrative that WSB and CNBC are promoting is pretty weak. This looks like forum manipulation with a layer of memes pasted on top. Citron and Melvin were set up as bad guys. Someone started this. It's definitely not organic.

That said, it has definitely worked. Any idea that retail investors can't move markets is now gone.
I really wish that were true!
Didn't know about the max down votes, but it wasn't that. I didn't want simonh to have the wrong impression, or others.

But thanks for the info.
Nobody is gambling money away. The sentiment is that they are knowingly _throwing_ it away to send a message.
Show HN: Go library for sending messages via Telegram, Discord, Email and Slack
Notify[1] was born out of my own need for one of my api servers running in production to be able to quickly notify me when, for example, an error has occurred. The library is kept as simple as possible for quick integration and ease of use.

At the moment it supports sending messages to telegram chats, discord channels and emails via smtp. Of course, all of these services require some form of authentication, which must be provided by you.

I only started working on this a few days ago, so please don't consider this project stable or final yet. The api might change in the future.

I hope this project is useful for someone else :) Feedback and contributions are of course very welcome.

[1] https://github.com/nikoksr/notify
Where does antifa.com take you too?
Investing in stocks/crypto for average people with little to zero experience was not nearly as simple as today compared to 10 years ago.
That's not your system.
I have seen very little evidence of people investing money in the stock market that is not budgeted as “gambling” (ie disposable income). WSB embraces the idea that memetrading is gambling. This is not a surprise to anyone but a few outsiders.
If you want specific legal advice there really isn't a substitute for asking a lawyer.
This all reminds me of the crypto ICO's a few years back. Build a tonne of hype around something, get a vast number of people who don't really know what they're doing to put in their money, and then the big investors get out, tanking the price for everyone else.

In all the talk of conspiracy around this I'm surprised nobody is discussing the possibility that larger investors are likely manipulating/hyping the WSB community. The WSB community is acting untouchable but I get the feeling in the end they'll be the ones losing their money.
If I'm imagining your experience correctly this exemplifies part of why we need to open up our culture. Also, I'm pretty sure I've been in that gig and it bites. I suspect you dodged a bullet even if you got grazed.
Robinhood bugged out as I attempted to sell some of my AMC this morning. The Market Sell order barely went through and was visually glitched for 10 minutes.
Although I'm not the original commenter, direct cash payment isn't the only incentive for established media to protect established product. Let's not forget they're apps from different, rival countries.
The theory isn't "it's illegal", the theory is "someone at their main source of revenue might call them up and pressure".
Color coding comes for free with containers in Firefox. I agree it makes things much easier.
The whole business model of GitHub is to get you to use its proprietary social features, so that 1) you get locked-in, and 2) you generate and maintain adoption virality.

The minute they become just another dumb git host, their relevance disappears.
You're probably late to the party here. Reddit is holding for $1000, but there comes a point where the funds would be so unable to fulfil their shorts that any ones left holding it will declare bankruptcy rather than pay, and you lose yours too.

Even if you're willing to risk throwing away some money to "stick it to the man", it will take a while - It may be easier in the US, but I signed up to Degiro to get some shares a couple of months ago and it was a fairly lengthy process even for Europe's closest equivalent to Robinhood. Day long stops in the process for e.g. putting in a verification transaction, or for degiro to do their kyc diligence etc, and the consensus is that the finale to this gamestop thing is friday, one way or the other.
Do investors really think they can predict the income of a company in the 2070s with ANY degree of accuracy? None of the top five companies by market cap even existed 50 years ago.
Pen Plotter Art and Algorithms, Part 1
See also Engadget article about this:

Facebook's oversight board's first judgments overturn four moderation decisions

https://www.engadget.com/facebook-oversight-board-initial-ju...
Although the article does not add anything new, I do have to agree that the way Telegram is positioning itself is rather frustrating: they are really pushing the "secure" nature of the service and try their best to make it seem even _more_ secure than WhatsApp or Signal (eg. speculating other encryption standards are US-funded and therefor not trustworthy), while it is clear that they have made some design decisions that make it less secure. And that's fine!

The user experience is great, and I like the service in general. The fact that it's not tied to an advertising company that is profiling users and making money of it is of course the biggest plus, but please stop with the whole "totally secure" BS. It's confusing and is probably even hurting their image: I have had to explain multiple times to friends and family I finally moved off of WhatsApp that we did not do it for the security, but rather to be free of being mined for personal data... Same thing goes for these non-tech 'news' sources that make a big deal out of it as well, while it's totally obvious if you investigate a bit more.

(Apologies for the rant, I guess had to get this off my chest.)
Oh well that's reasonable. If I were a brokerage you bet your ass I wouldn't lend you money to buy GME.
My rhetoric? Meanwhile guy I was replying to has made up a story in his mind and is dead fucking sure that's what happened...
Unconvincing. We're all playing in the same pool. It only takes one upset stomach to set off a chain reaction.
That sitting around playing drums and smoking doesn’t accomplish anything productive.
Some of them were sophisticated enough to see the short squeeze opportunity and realized it was possible to exploit it. Melvin Capital kept pouring more good money after bad in a classic and literal sunk-cost fallacy. This is all completely rational behavior by WSB investors, taking advantage of the short squeeze.
At a fundamental level GME just got a new activist investor/board member with a history of revitalizing retail operations and turning them around. This would be a rational reason to invest in GameStop at a basic level.
This is just the status quo realizing their position can be threatened and the easy money the wealthy have rolling in can be taken by average people acting in concert.
Don't you think the honchos at Robinhood got the call from the man last night ? Its a coordinated ban of serfs from buying up AMC GME BB. Its got too hot for them.
I'm not convinced that a plot formed openly on the internet actually qualifies as a conspiracy.

I'm sure things would have worked out differently for Nixon had he distributed a press release regarding an up-coming DNC burglary beforehand.
Vague predictions of inevitable violence (never "when we start a civil war", always "when the civil war happens" or "when the shit hits the fan") does seem like a hallmark of the far right, or white grievance.
All those institutions are interconnected. A large hit to one player can cascade to the wider market as they're forced to sell off other positions to put up additional capital. That could cause additional sell-offs for more leveraged players. And so on... The phrase "too big to fail" exists for a reason and it's smaller than you think.
Class action lawsuits never tend to work out that well for the little guy. Lawyers get rich and the Goliath pays essentially a fine.
Robinhood is a free service. The customers don’t pay anything. If the order internalizers decide to stop paying them for their order flow, then they have to route to the exchanges. which charge fees.

Trading is still ongoing at the exchanges. It’s just the free platforms, where it’s shut down. If someone wanted guaranteed access to the exchange, then they shouldn’t have used a free broker. Are you saying that Robinhood should be forced to continue providing a free service at a loss?
I believe there's a reason the old people are more rich, and it's caused by these very policies.

When boomers were 30, they were many times richer than millennials.
Why Rust? Conda and Jupyter are python based. What does one hope to achieve with a setup like this?
Nobody would know. I am interested in Teslas, was driven in one (as a passenger only, sadly) and I didn't know.

A random person doesn't stand a chance.

Even if you know it as a trivia, it is likely that in an extremely stressful situation you will revert to doing what you have been doing all your life, but now with no effect.
JackTrip WebRTC: high quality, uncompressed, low-delay audio streaming
Agreed. At this level of competition for top talent you need to pamper your staff, which includes letting them work on the kinds of projects that they’ll proudly mention on their CVs, even if it’s not the highest priority project business-wise. I am sure a company like Dropbox can afford to do this once in a while.
> Awan, a 48-year-old anesthesiologist and father of five, leased the Model S for two reasons, family attorney Stuart Grossman said: He was environmentally sensitive and safety conscious.

It may be arbitrary but I did want to point out Teslas are not environmentally conscious, they're luxury vehicles [0] In order for electric vehicles to be anything but luxury their power sources will need to be environmentally sustainable and friendly as well.

Home automation, which I used to take gratuitous part of, is also a luxury. I figured out pretty quickly that for every physical interface I replaced, I still needed a manual override. For example: I could have eliminated wall switches when I was seeking to automate my lights based on presence and time. Instead, I chose some Zigbee wall switches that used an internal relay. Even if the house turned the lights off, you could still walk over to the wall and turn the light on. In infrastructure automation I generally have the same sort of concept just for different reasons. I imagine Tesla needs something similar.

Edit: Just did some further reading and manual overrides are present in Teslas. It's safe to say Dr Awan didn't know how to use it, or didn't think to use it in a panic. Education and accessibility sound key here.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2016/03/teslas-electric-cars-might-not...
Research (By Others) Proceeds Apace
That programs should be for communicating between humans is one of the core design tenets of Smalltalk. For example, just look at the number syntax. No cryptic conventions for non-decimal bases; simply write BASErNUMBER, eg 11rA9, 36rZ. Humanism pervades the entire system. Read the introduction and first chapter of Smalltalk-80: the Language and its Implementation (available online).

It’s no accident the the Glamorous Toolkit has been implemented in Smalltalk; it is part of the flow of Smalltalk culture.

Instead of slumming of trying to make JavaScript, a truly awful language for humans with the most contradictory base library I know of, faults beautifully demonstrated in several presentations, try using an open source Smalltalk, Squeak, Pharo and indeed GT itself.
Facebook building antitrust lawsuit against Apple over iOS 14 privacy features
Assuming you're correct and this behaviour is illegal, who could the SEC prosecute?

The ultimate instigator, u/deepfuckingvalue, posts nothing but screenshots showing his position, without further comment. There don't appear to be any specific organizers within the group, and many posters claim that they are buying simply because they "like the stock." That would be a risible position for an institutional investor, but as these are individual retail investors it seems like it would be tricky to prove malfeasance.
When that happens it's usually at the same time as a huge influx of new users and/or user activity.

I agree it's somewhat suspicious if it happens all the time, like this has happened enough times why haven't you designed your infrastructure to handle surges more gracefully, but for the most part I think it's legit.

If we assume intentional malice every time a website goes down, that's a dangerous precedent for the tech industry.

The corporations I've worked for had nothing to do with finances but managed to have several major outages I've sat in on that have lasted as little as 2 hours and as much as 48 hours. They were pretty much always network or server related, sometimes unrelated to the business entirely (a T1 line got cut accidentally by the city in one case).

Those corporations didn't want to go down, and often lost some serious money as a result. I imagine Coinbase loses out on a good amount of money every time they go down as well.

I also expect it's at least somewhat overreported or only a partial outage as well. One person has an issue and announces it and everyone just repeats it without checking themselves. There was at least two instances when I saw people say Coinbase was down and I tried logging in myself and had no issues.
Ah the good old "it's just some bad apples", the system is great, trust it.
How is this not market manipulation ?
At the same time you can get super-cheap private insurance in the UK because they are effectively a "queue-jumping service" that leaves most urgent and lethal conditions to the NHS and gives you access to private treatments for the things the NHS would put on a waiting list, while cutting their costs by renting excess capacity from the NHS (some private clinics are even run by NHS trusts, as the trusts are allowed to derive some income from private treatments).

I think the best demonstration of the quality of the NHS is that despite the low cost of private insurance in the UK, and despite the fact many companies offer health insurance as a perk, only about 10% of the population has any kind of private cover.
They have certainly profited from the increased options & equity trading. I'm also pretty certain it's less than the loss Melvin Capital suffered.
And perhaps money found a new weapon in populist anger.
Fidelity has been rock solid for me. Great customer service. Relatively terrible UI, but you get used to it.

Edit: Also, their rewards card dumps 2% of your usage into your brokerage. It's a nice combo.
Magneto-Optical Drive
Given the issue I'm dealing with, I'm more interested in getting it resolved than dealing with debates between insurance, dr, etc. This was the quickest path to getting an ultrasound scheduled, so I complied.

What should have happened is that they should do the ultrasound right there, on the spot. But, the dr's office can't do ultrasounds. That has to go to the imaging department, which had to be scheduled 4 weeks out. Sigh... I won't keep going, but this whole situation is stupid and engineered to extract as much money as possible.
1/1,000th Scale World
By that logic, nobody should be allowed to buy and sell Bitcoin, because there's no way a currency with such a low GDP can be worth that much.
> $GME is up 11% as of the writing of this post. Who is buying it?

Robinhood isn't the only investment platform that allows trades on NYSE obviously. Evidently though, it had the highest volume when it comes to GME it seems.
Tax the rich. Distribute the wealth that was stolen from the backs of the workers. It wasn’t said clearly because we were living in a post 9/11 era where uttering words like “socialism” was still unpopular.

Enough is enough. The only thing keeping the guillotines from coming out is a thriving middle class. Oh wait, that’s been stolen. It badly needs fixing and fast.
This and they have terrible spreads. So commission is included in the price.
Relevant XKCD -

https://xkcd.com/1357/

They are a private company and you aren't allowed to complain, something something American law.
> They could face lawsuits from investors in Melvin and other hedge funds, who will allege that the brokers knew they were facilitating intentional financial harm.

That'd be a gutsy move from a firm that takes a big short position and then publicly bashes a stock.
All of this is making me wonder if I'm making the right choices for the retail brokerage that I use personally. While I'm not trading these stocks, what if this happens with a stock I do have money in?

Initially I had thought, "hey, there's this Interactive Brokers place that seems a bit further removed from places like Robinhood or Fidelity/Schwab/TD/ETrade." But apparently they're now blocking trades too.

What is the right way to ensure you're able to trade? I know there's the StockBrokers.com review site, but it doesn't seem they're going to have this kind of information.
Uh oh. I've always stuck with Bash, because it's guaranteed to be on absolutely everything, and that's valuable for ops work. But this looks so much better! Thanks for pointing it out.
That's not true, WSB are not insiders. The information that they are trading on was public.

Basically hedge funds promised to buy 140% of available GME stock which is impossible.
Please don't use rape as a metaphor.
Sidebery (https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery) is great, but is currently not on the Mozilla addons site due to issues with review (https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery/issues/336).
The fact is that a few things that are already prohibited are happening here. You have 1) pump-and-dump manipulation on the day trader side and 2) Robinhood grew an entire business based on selling blocks of order-volume so that people can front-run and piggy-back off of trades (which is also prohibited).

If the SEC wasn't neutered by the last administration and was doing their job, people would be hauled in for market manipulation on both sides.

Real marketplaces need to be free from gross manipulation or else people lose faith in them for legitimate commerce.
Don't underestimate that "fork" button. If the software otherwise does what you want, but you need some particular change, fork away.

Obviously one needs to be judicious with this, but I've scored some big wins from this. In addition to bypassing projects who don't want to accept the (IMHO) perfectly reasonable contributions, I've also some cases where the upstream project shouldn't accept my changes and I shouldn't submit them. I've got one case where I forked a package and essentially twisted it so hard that it destroys it for its original purpose, even though it now does exactly what I need. A couple of others where the upstream is obviously dead. Another case I can think of where in principle the upstream could accept it, but it adds a subtle and easy-to-misuse feature to the package that I understand fairly well having written it, but would really encourage users to mess themselves up and is hard to document properly, so I probably won't ever submit it.

It's not something I do all the time by any means... the above paragraph describes nearly all the cases where I've done it. It's 3 or 4 in as many years. But each of them was a fairly large win.
> Hedge funds do this to each other every day.

Do you have a source for this?
Reddit's GameStop, AMC surge is the new Occupy movement
Hotwire: A new old way to build web apps
Why not just leave them open for some other people who might find them useful, but never accepting them?